ArmInfo.Ara Babloyan, Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia took part in the meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly on April 12 in St. Petersburg.
According to the NA press service, the heads of the parliaments of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan participated in the meeting.
At the suggestion of the chairman of the National Assembly Babloyan, the next meeting of the Council of the CSTO PA and the Assembly will be held October 29-30 in Yerevan.
During the meeting, a number of issues related to the activities of the CSTO PA were discussed, in particular, the outcome of the Minsk session of the CSTO PA Council, the situation in the organization's area of responsibility and countering modern challenges and threats to collective security, priorities of Kazakhstan's chairmanship in the CSTO in 2018, members of the CSTO in the international observation mission at the presidential elections in the Russian Federation, making additions and changes to the program of activities of the CSTO PA on bringing together and harmonizing national legislation, the state members of the CSTO for 2016-2020 and etc.
The question of the participation of the parliamentary delegations of the CSTO member states at the winter session (February 22-23, 2018, Vienna) of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the coordination of the activities of the parliamentary delegations of the member countries of the organization for the summer session (July 7-11, 2018, Berlin), the PA OSCE presented for discussion by the Chairman of the CSTO PA Committee on Political Affairs and International Cooperation, Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Economic Affairs Khosrov Harutyunyan.